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Originally Posted by Rizla
Checked and I am seeing savings of about 15% on e-books over new paperbacks, so I stand corrected. I tend to buy used paperbacks which are cheaper than both. Still, seeing as you don't actually own the ebook, then the 15% seems less of a saving...But that's another story.
My comment re: low e-reader sales stands. I don't see much new adoption of e-readers around me. Usage seems to be static. It's mainly upgrades now. That's anecdotal, but I've seen no data to suggest otherwise. Waterstones' comment agrees with that.
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Well now I can't be positive but if we are just going by people in our vicinity, I could say that there are probably 3 actual ereaders in my entire neighborhood. I might be off by 1 or 2.
The guy on the corner might own 1.
I am not in a reading neighborhood. I would also venture to guess that not counting one house, there are less than 20 books of any kind on the entire block. And of those 20 books at least 15 would be 1 particular book.
So what does this suggest?
Now where the data for the block would get skewed is the one house I left out.
That house has more books than I can count.
I am sure other neighborhoods have the exact opposite stats.